Hair-drying apparatus.



No. $42,287. Patented Jan. 30, I900. H. C. BERNNER.

HAIR DRYING APPARATUS.

(Application filed July 28, 1899.)

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HAIR DRYING APPARATUS.

(Application tiled July 28, 1899.)

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IIERIIIANN O. BERNNER, OF PROVIDENCE, RIIODE ISLAND.

HAIR-DRYING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,287, dated January 30, 1900.

Application filed July 28, 1899. SerialdIo. 725,373. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERMANN O. BERNNER, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hair-Drying Apparatus; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in the construction of an apparatus for heating air and forcing the heated air through hair to remove the moisture.

The invention consists in the peculiarand novel construction and the combination of the parts whereby atmospheric air is heated and a current of heated air may be directed, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a View of one end, and Fig. a view of the opposite end,of the same. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through the center of the apparatus. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view through the airheating chamber, showing the burner and the deflector-plate.

Similar marks of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, A indicates the table forming the supporting-base for the apparatus. The legs of the table are preferably supplied with casters, so that the apparatus may be readily moved.

On the table A are supported the chambers 13, C, and D. The chamber B contains the electric motor Z) and has the door b sliding in the ways 5 b and b the conductor-wires connected with the electric motor.

In practice I find it best to use the chamber B; but it may be omitted and the motor exposed to view. While the electric motor is convenient in use and preferable, any other suitable motor may be used. The transverse sectional form of the chamber B is that of the inverted capital letter U.

The chamber 0 is of cylindrical form. The end disk 0 divides it from the chamber B. The shaft 11 of the electric motor Z) extends through the end disk 0 and connects with the fan-blower h, which is driven by the motor. The disk 0 closing the opposite end of the chamber 0, is perforated with the openings c 0 On one side of the peripheral casing of the chamber 0 the hood 0 extends tangentially from and covers an opening in the casing and connects with the funnel 05, to which the flexible tube 0 is secured, connecting at the upper end with the nozzle 0 provided with the handhold 0 The opening in the peripheral casing of the chamber 0 is 011 the side on which the blades of the fan-blower I) move upward to drive the air through the tube 0 The chamber D has one side secured to the end disk 0 of the chamber 0, leaving the openings c c to form passages for the air from the chamber D to the chamber C. The chamber D is provided with the large burner d, having the bypass d to form a permanent torch for lighting the burner d. Gas is supplied through the pipe (Z to the burner d. A valve connected with the arm d" is operated to control the gas by the rods d (1 connected with the arm (1. One or two rods may be used. WVhen two rods are used, the arm'd is counterbalanced by the two rods secured to the opposite ends of the arm to hold the valve in the desired position. hen one rod (1 is to be used, the arm may be counterbalanced by a weight secured to the arm (Z at the end opposite to the end on which the valve-operating rod d is secured.

The chamber D is preferably provided at one side with the sliding door d to give access to the burner and at the end with the perforated sliding door, through the perforations of which the air is admitted to the chamber D. If desired, the door d may be omitted and access may be had to the burner (1 through the door d.

To secure the uniform heating of the air, it is desirable to supply it evenly in small streams through the perforations in the door (I and bring it into contact with the heated surfaces before it is drawn by the fan into the chamber 0.

To secure the best result, I place into the chamber D, between the burner and the openings c c in the end disk 0 the deflector-plate, bent at a right angle at its upper end and perforated at its upper portion with the openings (Z d In using the apparatus the burner d is first lighted. As the burner is a large Argand heating-burner, the interior and the walls of the chamberD are quicklyheated. The fanblower b is now started by setting the motor in operation. The revolution of the fanblower forces the air tangentially out of the chamber 0 through the hood 0, covering the opening in the side of the chamber, and through the tube 0, to be discharged from the nozzle 0 The partial vacuum formed in the chamber 0 is supplied by air passing through the perforations in the door 61 coming in contact with the burner and the heated surfaces of the walls of the chamber 0 and the deflcc tor-plate d Some of the heated air passes through the openings 01 c1 in the deflectorplate; but the bulk of the heated air rising by its lightness passes over the deflector:

directs the stream of heated air on and through the hair until it has reached the desired degree of dryness.

Having thus described my invention, '1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In an apparatus for drying hair, in com bination, a table forming the support of the apparatus, a heating-chamber, the arched top of the heating-chamber, a perforated door closing normally the end of the heating-chamfan-chamber, a tangential outlet from the fanchamber, a flexible tube connected with the tangential'outlet, and a nozzle at the end of the flexible tube, whereby the heated air may beforcedon and through the hair, as described.

2. In an apparatus for drying hair, the combination with the table A and the chambers B, O and D supported on the table, of the motor I), the fan I) connected with and driven by the motor, the hood 0 inclosing the tangential outlet-opening in the peripheral Wall of the chamber 0, the flexible tube 0 the nozzle 0 provided with a handhold, the door 19 in the chamber B, the door (1 and the perforated door d in the chamber D, the burner d and means for controlling the same, and openings connecting the chamber 0 with the chamber D, whereby the air heated in the chamber D is discharged from the nozzle and may be directed by the operative, as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

HERMANN C. BERNNER.

\Vitnesses:

J. A. MILLER, Jr., B. M. SIMMs. 

